Well looks like this thread updated before I had a chance. I wanted to confirm that KDE 4.x IS included with the Deluxe version, it is on the second CD as rbistolfi has mentioned. The default desktop environment of the Deluxe is XFCE, if you do not choose to install and select another as default.

I wrote an article about PekWM and how, as a tabbed window manager, it helps manage screen space when working at low resolutions (netbooks, legacy hardware). It just so happened I used VL 6 to write the article and take the screenshots, some of them with VL-Hot running. VL gets a couple of mentions and a link as well just because it was what I happened to be running

He totally missed the boat on package management. Vpackager is not used (though you wouldn't know this from looking at the menu). Hey, reviewer--SLAPT-GET and GSLAPT! You can't get much easier than that.

I wish people would look at documentation. There's an icon on the desktop. Did he miss that or would he lose his geek cred by reading documentation?--GrannyGeek

...hmmmm,..not sure why he would experience that. Maybe he installed a different Vector than I did (LOL)..I never found it a "long and exhausting installation". I'm also certain that my computers that are running Vector are older than his hardware, too.